Tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia have flared up afresh after 20 years. The fraught big-power politics of the region makes this especially dangerousThere will be much argument about whether it was more in Azerbaijan’s or in Armenia’s interest to suddenly reignite a conflict that had mostly been frozen for over 20 years. But one thing that should not be doubted is that Europe’s wider interests will be at risk if a new spiral of violence erupts in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region where big power politics could all too easily overpower the calculations of local factions.Fighting broke out …read more
Source: The Guardian
